For six years of its existance the artists' colony in the building at 10 Pushkinskaya Street won the udisputable reputation of the visual arts center with its countless galleries and ateliers. It is less known, however, that the famous building also houses probably half of St. Petersburg's musical underground. I'm an old hand in the building and know most of the musicians; even for me their sheer number was straggering. Some, like Aquarium, Igry or Dva Samolyota have their rehearsal space or studious here. Others, like Sankt Peterburg, Sergey Kuryokhin and NOM, sympathize with the cause, are frequent guests and performers here and just love this mecca of contempoprary art. Stylistic range of music recorded on this CDs is enormous: from rock mainstream of Nautilus to post-punk of Bondzinski; from flamboyant dance rhythms of Prepinaki and Dva Samolyota to somewhat sombre avantgarde of ZGA; from nostalgic Duby-Koldyny to post-modernist Kolibri; from naked sincerity of DDT to Kuryokhin's multilayered sarcasm. All of this is Pushkinskaya #150; the genuine 21st Century Ark.
A. Kan

Humanities Foundation “Free Culture”
Cultural Center “21st Century Ark”
191040, St.Petersburg
Pushkinskaya, 10, off.1
Tel. 007(812) 164-5371, 007(812) 164-6527
Fax 007(812) 164-5207

Project Design:
S.Kovalsky
N.Medvedev
A.Donskich von Romanov
K.Preobrajenskiy

Graphics: Do#

Photography:
F.Titov
V.Gorbachev
A.Usov
V.Mayboroda
A.Barov
S.Podgorkov
N.Rybakov
S.Pavlov

Computer Design: Valentin Kudriavtsev

Digital Recording: A.Lisyn (Digital Recording Station DIGITONE DT 2012)

Special Thanks: Timur Novikov

(c) 1995 “Free Culture”
(p) 1995 MOROZ Records